Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.